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Univ. Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. techn. Michael Harasek was appointed University Professor for Material Separation and Biorefinery Technology at the Vienna University of Technology with effect from October 1, 2024. He is assigned to the Institute of Process Engineering, Environmental Engineering and Technical Biosciences (E166) at the Faculty of Technical Chemistry at TU Wien.

Michael Harasek comes from Vienna. After studying Technical Chemistry at the Vienna University of Technology, he obtained his doctorate in 1998 - sub auspiciis praesidentis - with a dissertation on the subject of “Pervaporation and Membrane Distillation for the Removal of Organic Compounds from Aqueous Mixtures, opens an external URL in a new window”. From 1999, he was head of the research group “Fluid Dynamic Simulation and Thermal Process Engineering” and combined this activity with regular stays abroad as a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin USA until 2002. Since 2015, he has been head of the research area Thermal Process Engineering and Simulation. In 2020, he obtained his venia docendi for the “Thermal Process Engineering” department with a habilitation thesis on “Computational Fluid Dynamics in Chemical Engineering: Solution Strategies for Complex Flow Problems, opens an external URL in a new window”. Since 2020, he has also headed the TU Doctoral School “CO2Refinery”. In addition to his academic work, he co-founded a company in 2013 to promote developments in the fields of separation technology, modeling and simulation. He has also been the winner of the Houska Prize - Wikipedia, opens an external URL in a new window (production of green hydrogen) since 2023 and won the national “Patent of the Year” award, also in 2023.

Michael Harasek's scientific home is the research area Thermal Process Engineering and Simulation (E166-02), which he also heads. 

Publications by Michael Harasek in the Scopus, opens an external URL in a new window database and in ResposiTUm, opens an external URL in a new window.